We encourage other companies to do the same,
Calls to single out and ban TikTok for privacy-based offences that are regularly committed by American-owned companies like Meta and Alphabet are extremely hypocritical and steeped in xenophobia,
We anticipate some temporary service instability that may affect advertising in the US,
We welcome internet enterprises from all countries to develop in China as long as they comply with Chinese laws and regulations and provide safe and reliable products and services.”
We hope the US can listen to rational voices and provide an open, fair, just and non-discriminatory environment for companies from across the world,
If full China control over TikTok is a security risk, co-control won’t be better,
China will take some time to make a judgment on Trump’s real purpose, and a possible transaction,
TikTok is back online, but the iOS store hasn’t restored the app. That demonstrates the complexities here,
Trump’s proposal is not the best solution,
If, for example, a user allows TikTok access to the user's phone contact list to connect with others on the platform, TikTok can access any data stored in the user's contact list, including names, contact information, contact photos, job titles and notes,
Access to such detailed information about U.S. users, the Government worries, may enable 'China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage,
We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok,
I was fully crying myself to sleep last night because it was just so sad and I felt like I’d lost a whole community and a job,
And for all of those concerns that people were saying that TikTok is going to be used as a propaganda tool by the Chinese, understand they’re using it as a propaganda tool for the right,
First of all, Donald Trump is not president right now. He is a private citizen. He does not have access to presidential powers, he does not have the ability to do any of that,
We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration. This is what 21st century fascism is starting to look like."
All these journalists were like congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration? Congresswoman are you going to the inauguration? Are you going to the inauguration? Let me make myself clear. I don't celebrate rapists, so no, I'm not going to the inauguration room,
Now that the law has taken effect, there is no legal basis for any kind of 'extension' of its effective date. For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law's qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China."
I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture,
Frankly, we have no choice. We have to save it,